2018 Junior Summer Sculling Programs

Ali Brooks: Ali is a ski instructor at Big Sky, MT, and an outdoor trip leader in the Whites. Ali coached Junior Sculling & Racing last summer, and we hear kids are excited to have her back.

Grace Hollowell: "I currently am an Assistant Coach for Dartmouth Women's Crew, and have coached at the high school, D3, and D1 level. When not coaching, I can be found cooking, hiking, or eating sour gummy worms."

Casey Kelsey: Casey learned to row in high school at St. Paul's, rowed at Brown, and now is Head Coach of Girl's Crew at Choate.

Heidi Robbins: "Hi! I'm Heidi and am thrilled to be returning to the Upper Valley and the beautiful CT River to begin medical school in August. I've spent the last 8 years in Princeton, NJ, graduating from college in 2013 and training since then with the US National Team. I loved coaching Mercer/Princeton National Rowing Association juniors and look forward to sharing my rowing enthusiasm with UVRF folks!"

Junior Sculling

In sculling, each rower holds 2 oars and rows in small boats. UVRF owns many sculling boats, including singles (one person), doubles (2 person), and quads (4 person) that are available to club members under certain conditions. If you are already a sweep rower, sculling is an excellent way to develop boat "feel," balance and technical skills.

In addition to the programs listed below, that are exclusively for juniors aged 14-22, the club offers Learn-to-Scull clinics for first-time rower-scullers and Free Sweep-to-Scull clinics for experienced sweep rowers.

Junior Club Membershave the privilege of using club singles and doubles throughout the summer season on their own IF they have the requisite level of certification following the club sculling policies, and do at least one of the following: